Word: idealizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...head of the University saw in the meeting the embryonic idea of a brilliant educational innovation: the School of Public Administration. Two other views were presented with clarity and deep understanding such as proceed from long experience and reasoning. From two different angles an approach to the practicable ideal of security and happiness was impressed upon a growing generation...
When President Conant carried greetings from Harvard and the educational world to Iowa State College on its ninetieth birthday party yesterday, both his presence and the words of his mouth gave striking witness to the basic validity of the Harvard educational ideal. Reversing the process of last September, when Mr. Conant gathered world-wide greetings in honor of his own university's age and pre-eminence, the president has taken up the gage of responsibility that pre-eminence demands. His speech at Iowa City not only conveys anniversary regards to a younger institution, but trumpets to the nation at large...
...must ride the officials in order to get a fair deal. Thus, by a subtly growing process, the bench turns into a concentration camp of hatred, and the professional spirit,--that the game must be won by whatever hook or crook comes in handy,--tends to displace the amateur ideal of playing for the sake of the sport...
While in Georgia, serious Mr. Scattergood got to pondering the spectacle of water power running to waste in a State which was economically top-heavy with agriculture. In the Los Angeles of 1901 he found an ideal spot to check his answer: an area planned and integrated "by the application of engineering knowledge to develop the community for the ultimate good of humanity...
Madeleine Carroll, whose chiseled sophistication makes her ideal for such stories as Lloyd's of London, is badly miscast, still manages to lend her ridiculous role dignity. Dick Powell gives another of his exalted-shoe-clerk performances. Alice Faye, in a part which requires only that she act natural, comes off best. What makes On the Avenue fun is not the antics of this troubled triangle, but the half-dozen high-spots sprinkled through the picture, usually with excellent accompanying melodies by Irving Berlin. Samples: Dick Powell hunting for The Girl on the Police Gazette, Madeleine Carroll and Dick...